Older kid graduated this week. At his graduation, by tradition, they read the speech of the Dean in 1939 when Colorado was effectively ruled by the KKK. The KKK grand whatever told the Dean (president of the college, whatever) to kick out every Jewish and Catholic student. The Dean refused to and the state funds were cut and the university barely survived. His graduation speech was about carrying the light forth into the world.We need that light now, because these people are Nazis. They're in the universities, in my professional association and EVERYWHERE. And we need to bring light on their actions, and keep pushing back.

FOIA these little shits' academic advisors. They didn't get to be preening faux intellectuals on their own. Once the unsavory political activity of their academic advisors -- conducted on the universities' and taxpayers' dime -- comes to light, the firestorm will stop them egging this fascism on. The students have nothing to lose, but their advisors have a more than comfortable, tenured existence to protect. If the students persist, FOIA the next advisor. They will soon have difficulty securing advisors and, ya know, graduating.

This is amazing. I took a seminar with Doug Laycock many years ago on the subject of religious liberties. He's a great teacher. But the idea of one of these little condescending children telling him that he has much to learn on this subject is just gob-smacking. I can't imagine someone who has studied and thought about it more. The terrific thing I noted about Laycock is that he's not really an ideologue, he just takes principles seriously and insists they be observed impartially. So it's delightfully telling that the leftists take his evenhanded integrity as a sign that he is insufficiently ideologically pure.

“His work, whether he understands it or realizes it or not, is being used by folks who want to institute discrimination into law,” Leftiespeak translation. His work may be used to preserve the religious liberty of religions who still dare to say they think being gay is sinful, and impede our ability to permanently silence these thought crime transgressors.

Most of what I know about injunctions -- a subject I've been dealing with almost continuously throughout my legal career -- I learned from editing a book review that Doug Laycock wrote for the Texas Law Review in 1979 or so. He's a mensch and a scholar, he was a pleasure to work with, and the notion that he's being targeted as some sort of bigot is profoundly disappointing to me, even though it's sadly unsurprising.

As a UVA Lifetime Alum, I no longer make annual gifts because of the U’s conduct over the Michael Mann FOIA requests. The Laycock FOAI request appears to pertain to his truly private activities, for private entities. The Mann FOIA requests pertained to Mann’s work while an employee of the U and while being funded by the State and US taxpayers, for work-product that was often in the public domain and which featured prominently in the setting of national policy. Mr. Laycock’s wife (President Sullivan) featured prominently in the turmoil at the U that ultimately resulted in the U’s refusing to comply with these FOIA requests (and spending $0.5M+ to defend their refusal).

I will watch the U’s behavior with great interest regarding this FOIA request.

I lived in Virginia for 45 years--not in Occupied Virginia (NOVA) but real Virginia. O.V. just metastasizes and spreads like a cancer. In 20 years, Virginia will be indistinguishable from Maryland and New Jersey. How very sad.

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